For one of my classes, I had to subscribe to Newsweek because my teacher complains that we don’t keep up on current events. Maybe, I’m not the average college student but I’m always reading the newspapers and news magazines online. I’ll admit to being a nerd like that. But anyways, my point is that one of the articles was about how the super skinny models are being replaces by real sized models. That includes average and plus size women. That’s one victory for the size 14 girls like me!
Here’s a brief part of “Rise Of The Real People”
Fashion-industry folks say the trend of using real people to sell
clothes attests to a fatigue with skinny, expressionless models in ads
and on runways. As proof, they point to the negative publicity
surrounding the painfully thin models at last spring’s Fashion Week. “I
definitely think there’s some backlash amongst people who see fashion
shows, then read stories about how the models have to smoke themselves
to death and only drink lemon water for six weeks,” says Simon Rogers,
head of Ugly New York, a casting agency for “real”-looking models.
“People would like to see somebody up there who reflects how people on
the street really look.” (The TV show “Ugly Betty” echoed this
sentiment in a recent episode where Betty staged an “alternative”
fashion show with nonprofessional models.) Now, with New York’s Fall
2008 Fashion Week arriving this week, fashion watchers say we may begin
to see subtle indications of the trend on the runway: the models will
still be thin and gorgeous, but they may look more like thin, gorgeous
versions of real people than like stereotypical models. “In the ’80s
and ’90s, models were expected to look glamorous and clean, like Niki
Taylor and Christy Turlington,” says Faran Krentcil, former editor of
Fashionista. “Now people want girls wearing concert T shirts and jeans
they’ve patched themselves—girls who have an appeal that goes beyond
how pretty they are.” In other words, the demand is for models who
exude personal style, whether they’re wearing their own ratty duds or
haute couture.
The full article is here at Newsweek.
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